Strategic Lens

Supply chains and manufacturing: Argentina and Canada

First country

Second country

In 2025, Argentina sold USD 26.2 million of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel to Canada and bought USD 166 million from it.

Benefits

  • BothTwo-way trade in machinery, vehicles and iron and steel grew 73 percent, from USD 111 million in 2019 to USD 192 million in 2025.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Canada sold USD 166 million of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel, against USD 26.2 million the other way.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

Argentina's exports to Canada: machinery, vehicles and iron and steel

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Argentina

2019: 9.8Low 4.6 / High 26.22025: 26.2

20199.8
20204.6
20215.1
202212.2
202310.3
202417
202526.2

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

Argentina's imports from Canada: machinery, vehicles and iron and steel

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Argentina

2019: 101.5Low 58 / High 165.92025: 165.9

2019101.5
202058
202166.9
2022153
2023163.7
2024158.9
2025165.9

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026